● You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your building. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content. ● You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags, and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school. ●You organize the Web for learners. You have the skills to create a blog or website or wiki or portal of some other type to pull together resources to meet the specific information needs of your learning community. ● You make sure your learners and teachers can (physically & intellectually) access developmentally and curricularly databases, portals, websites, blogs, videos, and other media. ● Your Web presence reflects your personal and professional voice. It includes your advice and your instruction. You make learning an engaging and colorful hybrid experience. ●You think of your web presence as a knowledge management tool for your entire school. It includes student-produced instruction and archived (celebrated) student work, handouts, policies, and collaboratively built pathfinders to support learning and research in all learning arenas. (Checkout Pathfinder Swap for examples.) ● You help learners put together their own personal information portals and Knowledge Building Centers to support their research and learning, using widgets, embedded media, and personal information portals like iGoogle and NetVibes and wikis and Google Sites. ● You intervene transparently in the research process online while respecting young people’s need for privacy. ● You work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved database and search engine searches relevant to their information needs. ● Your own feeds are rich with learning content, evidence of your networking. You embed dynamic widgets (including your own database widgets) wherever students live, work, and play. ● You integrate dynamic interactive features in your library’s website–Google calendars, RSS feeds, delicious bookmarks, photo galleries, online presentations, blogs, surveys, polls, as ways to interact with and teach students.
~Joyce Valenza: A Revised Manifesto
A bag is a user-created collection of web links. You can pick up any webpages you like into a bag to form your own web collection.
A bag can collect any topic. Also it can link to other relevant bags as references.
Information Landscape
What is the role of the school librarian??● You know that searching various areas of the Web requires a variety of search tools. You are the information expert in your building. You are the search expert in your building. You share an every growing and shifting array of search tools that reach into blogs and wikis and Twitter and images and media and scholarly content.
● You open your students to evolving strategies for collecting and evaluating information. You teach about tags, and hashtags, and feeds, and real-time searches and sources, as well as the traditional database approaches you learned way back in library school.
● You organize the Web for learners. You have the skills to create a blog or website or wiki or portal of some other type to pull together resources to meet the specific information needs of your learning community.
● You make sure your learners and teachers can (physically & intellectually) access developmentally and curricularly databases, portals, websites, blogs, videos, and other media.
● Your Web presence reflects your personal and professional voice. It includes your advice and your instruction. You make learning an engaging and colorful hybrid experience.
● You think of your web presence as a knowledge management tool for your entire school. It includes student-produced instruction and archived (celebrated) student work, handouts, policies, and collaboratively built pathfinders to support learning and research in all learning arenas. (Checkout Pathfinder Swap for examples.)
● You help learners put together their own personal information portals and Knowledge Building Centers to support their research and learning, using widgets, embedded media, and personal information portals like iGoogle and NetVibes and wikis and Google Sites.
● You intervene transparently in the research process online while respecting young people’s need for privacy.
● You work with learners to exploit push information technologies like RSS feeds and tags and saved database and search engine searches relevant to their information needs.
● Your own feeds are rich with learning content, evidence of your networking. You embed dynamic widgets (including your own database widgets) wherever students live, work, and play.
● You integrate dynamic interactive features in your library’s website–Google calendars, RSS feeds, delicious bookmarks, photo galleries, online presentations, blogs, surveys, polls, as ways to interact with and teach students.
~Joyce Valenza: A Revised Manifesto
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BAG THE WEB
A bag can collect any topic. Also it can link to other relevant bags as references.
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